Then he was silent, his eyes fixed; and I looked also; for up from somewhere about the center of the wooded lowland there rose high into the quiet air a great column of hazelike spray, upon which the sun shone, causing innumerable rainbows.

That question was answered, before long, in an unexpected waya way which filled many columns in the papers, which delighted the comedy-loving French, and which gave Crochard a unique advertisement.

He wrote half a column on the "sad death of Col. W's.

Ha, see where he ordereth his line, 'twas ever so his custom, I mind mein four columns with archers betwixt.

"And how many columns to a page?" asked Uncle John.

And when you stand back far enough to see the massive columns from the swelling instep to the lofty summit dissolving in a dome of verdure, you rejoice in the unrivaled display of combined grandeur and beauty.

The column was so long that some of my companions and I, when we climbed a high hill near the front end of the column at Bachimba, found it impossible to discern the tail end through our field-glasses.

I'll do your column for to-morrow, and after the vacation you can tackle the thrilling situations with better courage.

And behind him, on the road he had just passed, trailing up the side of a hill, was a wavering, stealthy line, creeping slowly nearer every minute,the gray columns under Dunning.

There was not a column about it, whether Grecian, Roman, or Egyptian; no Venetian blinds; no verandah or piazza; no outside paint, nor gay blending of colours.

Black, brown, white, grey; fat and lean; old and young; strident or silent; the whiskered legions tore and galloped along; thronging from every part of the city, they united in single column into an endless host that appeared to stretch from the rising to the setting of the sun.

There is hardly a journal in the country but has column after column full of their tattered wares; there is hardly a man or woman in the country but buys them.

The enemy crossed at Leesburg while the Southern cavalry was near Middleburg; and, from the jaded condition of his horses, Stuart feared that he would be unable, in case he crossed above, to place his column between the two armies then rapidly advancing.

Column by column he searched them through feverishly, running his finger down one side and up the next.

Here and there seemed a cluster of giant trees scathed as if by lightning, their bare boughs standing up as high as the distant towers, their trunks like black columns without foliage.

Then Huerta, with these columns as a supporting framework, pushed out mobile columns for the destruction of the rebel bands.

It was the rule to have twice as many columns along the sides as in front.

" "One must speak to those at hand, in order to be quickest heard," rejoined the gondolier, casting a glance that was partly humorous, and not without superstition, upwards at the image which crowned the granite column against whose pedestal he still leaned.

Double of the first class stands first word of page, and Sunday of first class will be found in column beneath the rows of figures.

There were never more than ten columns across the front.

Dilution was to be expected in a production whose author had to make three columns out of "Thank you, can't come."

The drums beat the alarm, and expecting a general attack, we were formed in column before the intrenchment.

And so, instead of fighting, we wheeled our half squadrons round and moved in two little columns down the valley, the shakos and the helmets turned inwards, and the men looking their neighbours up and down, like old fighting dogs with tattered ears who have learned to respect each other's teeth.

On the capital of a column near Byron's tomb I saw two moldering wreaths of laurel, which had hung there for several years; one brought by the Bishop of Norwich, the other by the American poet Joaquin Miller.

Therefore, on the whole, Lady Maud was much better treated by the society columns than Margaret at first expected.